A34675:31
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on…A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on…
A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of self contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cawdrey written by himself not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cawdrey about the nature of schism, by John Owen ...A defence of Mr. John Cotton from the imputation of selfe contradiction, charged on him by Mr. Dan. Cavvdrey written by himselfe not long before his death ; whereunto is prefixed, an answer to a late treatise of the said Mr. Cavvdrey about the nature of schisme, by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
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2. He knows from good hands that some of the Brethren have renounced their Ordination; therefore he durst say positively that I have renounced mine. Prov. 12. 18.
2. He knowes from good hands that some of the Brethren have renounced their Ordination; therefore he durst say positively that I have renounced mine. Prov. 12. 18.
3. He hath heard that I dissuaded others from their ordination, and therefore he durst say I renounced my own; and yet I suppose he may possibly dissuade ⟨p. 31⟩some from Episcopal Ordination: but I know it not, no more than he knows what he affirms of me which is false.
3. He hath heard that I disswaded others from their ordination, and therefore he durst say I renownced my owne; and yet I suppose he may possibly disswade ⟨p. 31⟩some from Episcopall Ordination: but I know it not, no more than he knowes what he affirmes of me which is false.
4. He concludes from the principles in my book of Schism; because I said that to insist upon a succession of ordination from Anti-Christ and the Beast of Rome would if I mistake not keep up in this particular what God would have pulled down, therefore I renounced my ordination; when he knows that I avowed the validity of ordination on another account.